World Salt Awareness Week aims to encourage the implementation of evidence-based interventions to reduce salt consumption in the population
If population salt intake is reduced to 5g a day, 1.65 million deaths could be prevented from cardiovascular disease each year.

Cuba begins World Salt Awareness Week on Monday with a reminder from local health authorities that, according to WHO/PAHO standards, the Cuban population has a high salt consumption.

The Cuban President met UNIDO director-general on Friday

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel held a meeting with the director general of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Gerd Müller, on a visit to the island, it was reported today.

Terrorist attack perpetrated against the Cuban embassy in Washington four years ago.

The "Puentes de Amor" ("Bridges of Love") movement condemned the decision of a United States judge to acquit the author of the terrorist attack against the Cuban embassy in Washington on April 30th, 2020.